Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-17
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THE NEWS EPIToMHZED.
Botetourt county Virginia is excited
over the discovery OF gold and silver
deposits assaying $l6 to $50 per ton.
In the national convention Of jour-
neymen bakers at Chicago Saturday q
resolution condemning the verdict in the
anarchist trial was passed with a whoop.
Measles is again on the increase 10
New York city. Saturdays reports
showed GAL cases and ~ deaths from
the disease, as against 4y5 cases and %
deaths the week before.
a banquet wa given in Paris satur'
day evening to celebrate the anniveI-
sary OF the capture OF Yorktown. Gen.
Boulanger was present and toasted
President Cleveland and Minister Nc
Lame.
An explosion OF several tons OF powder
took place in one OF the mills at Xenia
Ohio at II o'clock FRIDAY night. The
shock was distinctly felt at Columbus,
and was supposed to be an earthquake
at the time.
Lieut.. Finley, Of the United States
signal service has awarded to John Il.
Church, OF Rochester N. 7. the prize OF
$500 offered by the Burlington insur-
ance company for the best design Tor q
" tornado
A. r. Durkee a ship owner of Philadel-
phia; has just received q letter from
MontsYedio, South America, stating
that cholera prevails to an alarming ex-
teat on the upper river Platte, includ-
ing all towns above Montevedio. both
in Uruguay and Argentine Republic.
Hundreds of persons are dying daily.
A SNOW slide in Marshall basin, Colora-
do, Saturday, killed two men named
Gum and Donovan and severely injured
another. The slide swept away all the
buildings OF the Union mine and injured
one OF the men. 1t carried away the
men working in Sheridan and n from
the MENDOZA mines. bruising them con-
siderabiy.
Five masked robbers boarded o Pan
Handle freight train near Sheridan
station, just at the outskirts of Pittsburg
Friday night, and were detected in the
act of throwing valuable freight from
the train. In the desperate fight which
ensued Fireman Curley was shot
through the right thigh and q brakeman
knocked ~senseless. The robbers escaped.
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The executive committee of the coast
defense association es .ks coast cities OF
the south have issued a circular describ'
ing the unprotected condition Of theil
coast cities, and recommending that {
convention be held at De Funlah
Springs, Fla, q central point. on Feb
ruary {, TO discuss the best method oil
securing protection Of the coast against
invasion by armed force.
There iB still no material change in
the situation in the Pennsylvania Goa
strike. Factory men in New York are
n~umerously reporting that unless thu
are relieved they will be obliged Il
close their factories early this week TO
lack CT coal, and it is said the supply o
soft coal, which has been drawn npon t,
take the place of anthracite as far q
possible will soon be exhausted.
The funeral Of Henry Brewster Stan
ton. for many years an editorial writel
On the New York Sun, and who diet
suddenly at the age of 50 years, of pneu
monia, occurred at the residence OF hi
o D Robert I. Stanton, Saturday. Thu
funeral was private, only the member
OF the family and very near friends be
ing present, while the wife OF th
deceased, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, is il
London,